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Harvard Names Srikant Datar as New Dean of Its Business School

  • Datar has been at the school for more than two decades
  • He takes over as HBS begins plan to advance racial equality
   

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Harvard University named Srikant Datar the dean of its business school, promoting an insider who has spent almost 25 years there and who helped lead its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Datar becomes the 11th dean in the school’s 112-year history after serving as a professor and senior associate dean, Harvard said in a statement Friday. He starts in January, replacing Nitin Nohria, who leaves in December after a decade in the job.